Neverware CloudReady

[Arnold Santos]

Has anyone tried using this under the school environment?

https://www.neverware.com

[Arnold Santos]

We're trying to replace our old version with ChromiumOS build by Arnoldthebat and Hexxeh, but it seems this version has a lot of compatible hardware unlike the others. 32-bit seems stable but wondering if the paid version with Google management console is good enough for its price. Any thoughts?

[trevor storr]

Neverware is officially partnered with Google.  There's a free version to try out but you can't enrol devices to a domain.  Worth a try perhaps?   There's ongoing cost $15 usd? p.a. but licenses can be transferred between devices.  

Let us know how you go!

I did a chromebox build a few years ago that may also be of use - instructions are at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AKoWdoF7Y-L8DmaBBsq5CXxD4B5LhmVOuQ0ztI_4nzg/edit?usp=sharing and are a bit out of date, but give you the idea.

Trevor

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[Patrick Dunford]

My advice is to steer clear of Chromium OS as these are unofficial builds you will never be able to get support for. As you have noted there are often hardware compatibility issues with the Chromium OS builds which are difficult to resolve.

Whilst I do see the merit of this type of solution I have found a kiosk running Chrome or Chromium browser on top of Ubuntu Server a much more viable solution than Chromium OS as we are currently supporting this on a small number HP DC7100 PCs with just a minimum requirement of 3 GB of HDD and 256 MB of RAM (using Chromium in this case as Chrome is not available in 32 bit build which these computers must have).

At that point the fact this is not a supported configuration for this Neverware as they have stated it needs 2 GB would tend to discourage me from taking an interest in their solution.

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[Patrick Dunford]

We have done something similar just this year as having to resource a closing school with limited resources, in this case a pile of ancient HP DC7100 desktops that weren't driver supported past XP, and too old to have a 64 bit CPU. Strangely enough they will run Ubuntu very happily, but Win7 just causes them to bluescreen a lot.

I wrote a series of blog posts detailing how the system was built up on Ubuntu Server, similar to what you have written in your document, and how we cloned the computers using GParted live, with one pen drive to boot the cloning environment and the whole operating system image of about 3 GB fitting onto another pen drive. It works fine for Google Apps, but as we had to use Chromium instead of Chrome, there is no Flash support out of the box. I think there is a way of installing Flash as a plugin, but not using Adobe.

If you have hardware that supports 64 bit you can just use Chrome of course, but it isn't available in 32 bit for Linux nowadays.

http://enzedtech.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/linux-kiosk-computer-with-chrome.html

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